9.  oneSEARCH is the primary search tool to look for books and articles in the Library’s collections.

Go to the big search box on the Library’s website. This is oneSEARCH. It searches print books, e-books, e-book chapters and many (but not all) of our article databases at the same.

     

 

While oneSEARCH understands natural language searches, it is still a good idea to set up your searches in terms of keywords, and linking them together using AND.

 

For example, if you're interested in writing about Freud's "The Uncanny," then a possible search would be:

   

     freud AND "the uncanny"

If you're looking at particular themes in a specific text, like "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, some possible searches could be:

    trauma AND "the metamorphosis"

    shame AND "gregor samsa"

    "the metamorphosis" AND family

    fathers AND kafka

 

Sample results from oneSEARCH:

 

 

The first result is an ebook, the second and third results are articles in scholarly (peer reviewed) journals. Note the PEER REVIEWED tag beneath the citation. Click on the “Available Online” link to get access to the full-text of the source.

To limit your search to ONLY peer reviewed articles in OneSEARCH, click on the “Peer Reviewed Journals” filter on the left-hand side of your search results. To limit your search to ONLY online sources (not print), click on the “Full Text Online” filter.

 

 

Now that you’ve found some sources using oneSEARCH, let’s go into some article databases. The Brooklyn College Library subscribes to over 400 different article databases and although oneSEARCH searches a lot of them at the same time, it doesn’t search all of them.